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<title><![CDATA[Ian Buruma - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15061.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ian Buruma]]></description><category domain="15061">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The New Culture of Conformity]]></title>
							<link>https://glennloury.substack.com/p/the-new-culture-of-conformity</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Buruma</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ian Buruma'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s brief stint as editor of the New York Review of Books came to a close when he found himself on the wrong end of a revolt among some of his staff. He published a piece by Jian Ghomeshi, a Canadian musician and media personality, which explored the aftermath of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Death of Free Speech in Hong Kong]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/death-of-hong-kong-free-speech-apple-daily-closed-by-ian-buruma-2021-06</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Buruma</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In most liberal democracies, publications such as Hong Kong's Apple Daily are usually seen as the unfortunate price to be paid for the right to freedom of expression. But with mainland China tightening its control over the territory, the tabloid was a pillar of that freedom, and now it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why It's the Right Time for Biden's Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/right-time-for-biden-leadership-style-by-ian-buruma-2021-02?a_la=english&amp;a_d=60194cd3cea1ea325c487cf4&amp;a_m=&amp;a_a=click&amp;a_s=&amp;a_p=homepage&amp;a_li=right-time-for-biden-leadership-style-by-ian-buruma-2021-02&amp;a_pa=</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Buruma</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The new US president may not be an original thinker, a courageous leader, or exude personal magnetism, but are liberal democracies best served by such leaders in times of crisis? In fact, those hoping for a new New Deal in America can take comfort in the precedent of Franklin D....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Another Long, Hot Summer in America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/will-civil-unrest-in-us-cities-help-trump-in-november-by-ian-buruma-2020-06</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Buruma</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many Americans are clearly horrified by President Donald Trump's crass and incendiary words in response to the protests sweeping the country's major cities. But will age-old racial prejudices, often unspoken, or even acknowledged, still make them vote for the false security of a coarse...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Is Wasting Time Blaming China for Covid]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/money-and-intimidation-not-enough-for-china-global-leadership-by-ian-buruma</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Buruma</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If China wishes to lead the world, it will have to offer more than money and intimidation. Freedom still matters, and China will be incapable of advancing that cause on a global scale without first starting at home.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Racist Ban on Anti-Semitism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/traump-racist-ban-on-anti-semitism-by-ian-buruma-2019-12</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Buruma</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To combat racism, wherever it occurs, is a laudable aim. But singling out anti-Semitism in an executive order, especially when the concept is so intimately linked to views on the state of Israel, is a mistake.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vindman the Patriot Versus the President]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/dangerous-republican-vilification-of-trump-aide-vindman-by-ian-buruma-2019-11</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Buruma</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman should be a Republican poster boy, given the party's routine invocation of love of country and encomiums to military valor. But to the GOP and its supporters, Vindman's recent testimony in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump automatically makes...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boris Johnson: Britain's Enemy of the People?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/boris-johnson-enemy-of-the-people-by-ian-buruma-2019-09</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Buruma</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a student of the classical world, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson must be aware that the model of the upper-class demagogue gaining power by stirring up the passions of aggrieved plebeians goes back to the late Roman Republic. If he manages to suspend Parliament and push through a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Winston Churchill Would Despise Boris Johnson]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/spotlight/winston-churchill-would-despise-boris-johnson/ar-AAEXhev</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Buruma</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Winston Churchill'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ghost still hovers over Washington and London. American presidents have often modeled themselves after the British wartime leader, especially in times of conflict. George W. Bush was a great admirer. And so in the buildup to the Iraq war, Prime Minister Tony...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The North Korean Cult]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/north-korean-survival-cult-by-ian-buruma-2017-10?a_la=english&amp;a_d=59da88b478b6c70858e2c7aa&amp;a_m=&amp;a_a=click&amp;a_s=&amp;a_p=homepage&amp;a_li=north-korean-survival-cult-by-ian-buruma-2017-10&amp;a_pa=curated&amp;a_ps=</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Buruma</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The absurdity of the North Korean dictatorship is easy to caricature. Kim Jong-un, with his 1930s-style pudding-bowl haircut (cultivated, it is claimed, to make him resemble his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, the regime'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s founder), his antiquated Mao suit, and his short, plump body, is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of the Anglo-American Order]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/magazine/the-end-of-the-anglo-american-order.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine&amp;_r=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Buruma</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the strangest episodes in Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s very weird campaign was the appearance of an Englishman looking rather pleased with himself at a rally on Aug. 24 in Jackson, Miss. The Englishman was Nigel Farage, introduced by Trump as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the Man Behind Brexit.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Most people...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe's Turn to the Right]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/162698/europes-turn-right</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Buruma</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Right-wing gunmen are a rarity in postwar Europe. There have, of course, been instances of right-wing violence. In the 1990s, gangs composed mostly of former East German youths, prey to neo-Nazi fantasies, set upon Turks and other clearly identifiable immigrants, beating people up in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is America Being Overtaken by the Rest?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/04/21/080421crat_atlarge_buruma</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ian Buruma</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Last of the Tibetans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-buruma26mar26,0,4453066.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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